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M.H. Williams: We need federally financed elections

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02/09/2013 01:00:00 AM MST

We, as citizens, must tell our elected representatives to reverse the Citizens United decision by the Supreme Court. Call and remind your congressional representatives that Colorado voted in November for Amendment 65 to change the federal Constitution to limit campaign spending.

A recent Daily camera article stated that the ballot measure "directed the states nine-member congressional delegation to 'propose and support' an amendment to the U.S. Constitution limiting campaign spending." So far our delegation has not proposed any amendment.

What we really need is federally financed elections. Presently special groups such as the National Rifle Association, political action committees (PAC), the American Legislative Exchange Council and corporations are writing and implementing very bad legislation that is actually being passed into law in several states.

Call Rollie Heath at 303-866-4872; Claire Levy at 303-866-2578, and tell them to get to work on an amendment to limit campaign spending.

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